Svitlana Shytikova

Everything is possible for the willing heart!

Svitlana Shytikova is EU-Funded Project Coordinator at the National Erasmus+ Office and Higher Education Reform Experts Team in Ukraine. She is also Head of the Board at the Institute for Leadership, Innovations and Development and Board member of the Global Development Learning Network. Svitlana has over 20 years of teaching, research and international cooperation experience. Her PhD thesis addressed the "Implementation of the EU-funded Programmes of International Cooperation as a Mechanism for Higher Education Internationalisation in Ukraine".  Her track record includes national and international, public, private and civil society organisations as well as the European Union, Swedish Institute, Marta KAP, World Bank, Canadian International Development Agency and other international cooperation programmes. Svitlana contributed to the modernisation of higher education legislation and the capacity building of Ukrainian higher education institutions to implement reforms and develop internationalisation. Since 2009, she has been coordinating the Ukrainian National Tempus/Erasmus+ Office team with the mandate to promote and support the international dimension of the EU-funded programmes in education, training, youth and sports in Ukraine.